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SirsiDynix Leadership

Bill Davison

Chief Executive Officer

Bill Davison

Chief Executive Officer

Bill Davison is SirsiDynix’ chief executive officer, responsible for all SirsiDynix corporate functions—finance, administration, library relations, product development, marketing, and sales. Prior to serving as CEO, Bill held the position of chief operating officer (COO), responsible for the company’s sales, implementations, and client care organizations. Bill brings 24 years of experience in executive leadership positions for sales, marketing, and services, including four years previously as the COO and CMO of SirsiDynix (from 2002-2007).
Bill has served as CEO of the American Academy, an accredited e-Learning entity delivered in a SaaS model, and COO of Alpha Bay Corporation, a cloud-based retail operations technology provider. Prior to SirsiDynix, Davison served as vice president of sales and customer delivery at Raindance Communications.
Davison received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts and his MBA with emphases in finance and operational management from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Eric Keith

Chief Marketing Officer

Eric Keith

Chief Marketing Officer

Eric Keith is the Chief Marketing Officer at SirsiDynix. He oversees global corporate communications, media relations and strategic partnerships. Eric has previously served as Chief Sales Officer, VP of Operations, VP of Business Development and other positions at SirsiDynix.
Eric has been with Dynix and SirsiDynix for a combined 21 years between 1989 and the present. In between his time with SirsiDynix, he has held executive positions in Sales and Marketing at Footnote.com, Change Anything, Flipdog.com, Digital Signature Trust, as well as President of Naviset Inc.
Eric has a degree in Management Information Systems from Brigham Young University. He and his wife Jennifer has six children and reside in Orem, Utah.

Jeff Goodwin

Chief Technology Officer

Jeff Goodwin

Chief Technology Officer

Jeff Goodwin is the Chief Technology Officer at SirsiDynix. Jeff leads the company’s worldwide product development efforts, delivering and pioneering products using agile, client-focused development practices. He guides corporate technical strategy, providing clients with seamless cloud based integrated library systems and content solutions.

For over 30 years, Jeff has served the library software industry. Jeff started his career at EOS International in 1991 as a software engineer, and then rose steadily through the organization to become Vice President of Product Development in 2009. By means of the EOS acquisition in 2013, Jeff came to SirsiDynix as a Director of Software Development. Jeff has contributed substantially to the growth of SirsiDynix through the development of the BLUEcloud, CloudSource and EOS.Web product lines.

Jeff received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey and resides in Northern Nevada.

Berit Nelson

Chief Product Officer

Berit Nelson

Chief Product Officer

For Berit Nelson, the pursuit of library science began on the path to law school when she talked to a law librarian and found herself drawn to the information side of the industry. Perhaps serendipitously – we like to think so – her plans detoured once again in the library science program when she found herself gravitating more toward the automation and programming courses.
The rest was history, and she’s been bridging specialties ever since, translating library needs into SirsiDynix action items to improve the way libraries function.
“Our job with customers is so interactive – working with them to find smarter, more creative ways to serve their communities. I find it very fulfilling.”

Mike Nehren

Chief Financial Officer

Mike Nehren

Chief Financial Officer

As chief financial officer, Mike Nehren is responsible for the overall financial direction and strategy at SirsiDynix. Within finance he guides the forecasting, financial reporting, treasury, tax, sales operations, rev rec, and M&A functions pursuant to the company’s long-term strategy.
Prior to joining SirsiDynix, Mike held financial positions in a wide range of fields such as banking, healthcare, charitable foundations, and enterprise funds where he was instrumental in the execution of multiple growth and efficiency initiatives.
Mike earned his degree in corporate finance from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.

Scott Wheelhouse

Senior Vice President of Operations

Scott Wheelhouse

Senior Vice President of Operations

Scott Wheelhouse is the Senior Vice President of Operations at SirsiDynix with responsibility for Customer Support, SaaS/Cloud, Customer Success, IT & Security. During 23 years at SirsiDynix since 1987 Scott has worked in Product Management, Operations Management, Product Development, and Data Services.
During his years away from SirsiDynix, Scott directed the product roadmap for a learning management software company; was a partner in the startup of a business that digitized materials for libraries, museums, and archives; and refined his operations skills as a Director at Philips Electronics responsible for the design, manufacturing, logistics, and regulatory affairs of consumer medical devices.
Scott’s degrees in Information Systems and an MBA were earned at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah – but his practical education in Operations comes from the day-to-day experience gained in a home with eight children.

Rick Branham

Vice President of Pre-Sales Solutions & Academic Library Initiatives

Rick Branham

Vice President of Pre-Sales Solutions & Academic Library Initiatives

Rick has more than three decades of experience with SirsiDynix including support, product management, business development, marketing, and sales. Formerly leading the Asia Pacific region, he now drives SirsiDynix’s vision and strategy for Academic libraries. He also leads the Pre-Sales Solutions group, which leverages the BLUEcloud platform’s robust extensibility (through REST web services and JavaScript, primarily) to develop creative and innovative solutions for libraries. Rick also leads our new Content Solutions team, which leverages the vast body of global open access content for the CloudSource platform. The CloudSource OA solution was released in 2021, and mid-year 2024, CloudSource+ was launched to expand the index to include licensed content and related holdings management tools.

Tim Hyde

Vice President of Professional Services

Tim Hyde

Vice President of Professional Services

As VP of Professional Services, Tim brings over 22 years of technology experience in professional services, operations, and IT. He manages the worldwide services organization including the management and delivery of all customer implementations for SirsiDynix products. During the course of his career, he has held several roles with increasing responsibilities in sales, operations, SaaS, and IT.
Tim joined SirsiDynix in 1995 from IBM where he led IT teams dedicated to helping K-12 education through the use of technology.
Tim earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in Business Management with an emphasis on information systems.

John Martin

Vice President of Finance

John Martin

Vice President of Finance

John Martin is SirsiDynix’s Vice President of Finance. John is responsible for the accounting, financial analysis and budgeting functions. John has been with Sirsi since 2008, originally in the role of Controller before being promoted to his current position.
John has well over 10 years of experience in the software industry ranging from startups to international companies including Novell and LanDesk. During John’s career John has also worked in the financial service and government industries and in public accounting.
John received both is BS in accounting and Master of Accountancy from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. John is a CPA and CGMA and a member of both the AICPA and UACPA. John, his wife Michelle, and their two children reside in Springville, Utah.

Barbara Pacut

Vice President of EMEA Operations & Sales

Barbara Pacut

Vice President of EMEA Operations & Sales

Barbara Pacut is Vice President of Sales and Operations for SirsiDynix, EMEA. Prior to this role, from 2007 to 2010, she held the position of Vice President of Operations, International overseeing Client Care, Professional Services, and Cloud Services for all regions outside of North America.
Barbara came to SirsiDynix 28 years ago as a qualified librarian with several years’ experience working at the University of London, Senate House, and latterly in software sales. She joined the then distributor, Sirsi Ltd, in the UK office in Potters Bar as a Customer Support Consultant answering support calls, training, and project managing, before being promoted to Support Manager and later Customer Services Director for EMEA.
Barbara holds an MA degree in Library and Information Studies from University College London and a BA Hons degree in Spanish and German from the University of Southampton.